My Oldest Coin Ever!

[vic910]

WOO HOO! On Friday my husband and I went to a spot we've been detecting for a while. We've been finding some relics here and there, most!!ly from the sixties we think, but we knew there had to be older stuff there because the site had been active since the early 1900's. Well on this day we found our oldest coin ever! It was a 1905 Liberty "V" nickel!!!! My oldest so far! Yesterday we found a porcelain lid insert with some of the zinc screw lid partly attached. It's marked Boyd's Genuine Porcelain Lid. We looked it up and there's a lot of info on the net about them but we haven't been able to date it. Today we went again (needless to say my hubby is really stoked about this site now, lol) and we found three pennies, a 1969 D, a 192? wheat, and a 1918 wheat! I think we've finally started to clean out enough trash so that we're starting to get down to the old stuff. Guess we'll be hitting it hard now!

HH,
Vicki

 

[mountainman 2]

Sounds like a promising site. Congrats on the V nickel! Most of the old nickels up here come out of the ground barely recognizable.

 

[rebeljim52]

Sounds like some great finds.

 

[augusthog]

Keep hittin it!

 

[BobinSouthVA]

wtg Vicki.

I always find it exciting when finding a coin that is your oldest. Looking forward to your "broke the 1900 barrier" post

 

[SkyPirate]

Id like to see a picture of that coin.

 

[traverdog]

Way to go. Keep on truckin'!!

 

[Toby1858]

I have been finding alot those porcelain lids lately, I think they were used from maybe 1890 to today, could be wrong though! Congrats. on the V Nickel!!